Doug Liman Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many.
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Our built-in human system for mimicry explains why we humans can transfer our good and bad moods to each other - if we aren't careful!
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People in the mass media tend more and more every day to look and act like elected and appointed officials.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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I didn't have a sweet tooth, but I liked butter, and I liked sauces, and I liked wine... and curry... and cheeses.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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I can't touch Simon anymore.
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I had a really dark time after the Olympic Games... But then I said to myself, 'This is a sport that's blessed me with a home, with an education, with some money. I can't hate this sport. This sport took me out of Louisiana. This sport gave me a chance when so many people don't get a chance. And I love this sport.'
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Architecture is unnecessarily difficult. It's very tough.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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The thing that I really love about film is that it is with you forever - it goes to your children, and they get to see it again and again and have it forever.
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I'm deeply saddened by a sense that whites are still superior in this country, in some sense, that if you sit at a restaurant, they're served before a Kenyan is served. If you go through customs, a white person is going to have an easier time going through customs.
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Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.
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The mind starts to do things that you didn't even realize it could do. I suppose it's the manipulation. I suppose it's the sense of power, the center of attention, and the me-ism. And performers have to have that.
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Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
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I've been really lucky in terms of the people I've gotten to work with.
